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Children’s program:All month long, we are exploring the theme of Healing. This week, we are looking at the hurt that arises from cruelty and indifference and how we can heal that through acts of kindness. As we do that, we will have the chance to learn about the Hindu holiday, Diwali, and its call to bring light into the darkness. The Living Our Values activity will lift up our UU Value of Transformation.
Children’s program:
All month long, we are exploring the theme of Healing. This week, we are looking at the hurt that arises from seeing your life as “a glass half empty,” and how we can heal this through gratitude. As we do that, we will have the chance to focus on Thanksgiving, and its invitation to pause and give thanks. The Living Our Values activity will lift up our UU Value of Generosity, and its call to “cultivate a spirit of gratitude.”
This year’s UUA Common Read is Love at the Center: Unitarian Universalist Theologies, edited by the Unitarian Universalist Association president Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt. Instead of an adult Spiritual Exploration book discussion this year, we’ll have an interactive sermon series to explore the many facets of love.
The Rings of Love model offers five lenses for noticing how Love moves in our lives: the Love within me of inner spiritual life, the Love between us of close relationships, the Love among us of congregational life, the Love beyond us of our public presence and justice work, and the Love holding all that is ground of our being. All are happening at once, and experience travels inward and outward like a spiral, so that what happens in one sphere continually shapes and is shaped by the others.
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